Why I firmly believe that SSB 4 will have 48 character selection slots, and 50 characters to play as

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Holy Hell thats a lot of Character Selection. Personally I feel that many fighters may be a little far fetched, but it would be cool to see. Unless they just do a crappy skin-swap and essentially have 5 of the same fighters....

I think another way they could free up a slot is to remove "random" from the page altogether, and instead allow the random option to function by placing your token over your empty chosen character display spot and then just keep pressing the A button to make the token jump between characters.

That crossed my mind, too, but I just went with my first idea because it sounded more natural to how we do things when selecting characters in Smash. When I think of other buttons aside from A and B on that screen, my mind automatically jumps to changing the character's color, whereas all character decisions are focused around the token, so I thought keeping the "random" choice tied to the token being picked up and dropped, just in a different location, would feel more familiar and natural to Smash fans.

The button idea is just as easy, though, so either one would work for me.^_^